For Wendy Davis, pink sneakers amazingly fail to build lead toward finish line

posted at 5:01 pm on June 29, 2014 by Jazz Shaw

Say, do you remember Wendy Davis… the Texas state senator who performed a filibuster while wearing pink sneakers, immediately becoming a Democrat national icon? Well if you do you’re apparently in the minority. After that jackrabbit quick start on a run for governor in the Lone Star state, recent reports indicate that her campaign has somewhat fizzled.

One year after bursting onto the national scene with a marathon filibuster against abortion restrictions, Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator and Democratic nominee for governor, has been doing everything she can to mark the anniversary of that speech last June, even donning the same pink Mizuno sneakers.

The problem: A year after her filibuster pumped her up into the kind of galvanizing candidate Texas Democrats have not had for decades, she seems very much dragged down to earth, dwarfed by the perception that Democrats’ chances of ending the Republican domination of Texas remain slim. Recent polls have shown her trailing her Republican opponent — the state attorney general, Greg Abbott — by up to 12 percentage points…

“She’s not doing as well as people had hoped, expected or wanted,” said Bill Miller, an Austin lobbyist who works with both Democrats and Republicans and who is a friend of Ms. Davis’s. “I think there were unrealistic expectations…”

Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis said Saturday it’s “absurd” to suggest it’s too late for her to overtake Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott in the race for governor

Davis, pausing to speak to reporters after a breakfast speech at the Texas Democratic Convention, said her campaign will have the resources to compete with Abbott.

Greg Abbott is sitting on more than $10M as of the last quarterly campaign finance reports, with the ability to tap into more staunch conservative donors over the summer if need be. We’ll have another week or two to wait before we can find out precisely what sort of “resources” Davis has built up. But this probably has less to do with Davis’ fundraising ability or appeal to the Democrats’ base than they would have you believe. I think a lot of the probably unrealistic assumptions underlying her campaign were based on the predictions that massive immigration was going to be turning Texas blue. That may still happen one of these days, but the numbers seem to indicate that it’s not going to be coming in time to vault Ms. Davis into the lead.

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I’m just glad that this race has turned into a money hole for national liberal donors. Some bimbo stands up and filibusters a law that a large majority nationally, never mind in Texas supports, ultimately fails to stop the bill from passing, but never mind. She’s rabidly pro-abortion, so she’s the woman to turn Texas blue.

That’s what is going to make Grimes lose here in Kentucky, her pro-choice stance. Kentucky is 80% pro-life, so she is going to have an extremely hard row to hoe when McConnell starts blasting away at her position on abortion.

Grimes is trying to emulate Obama in 2008 and run as a blank slate. She has very little on record as far as her position(s) on the issues that concern most voters here. But she is definitely 100% in the abortion on demand crowd.

It has been 20 years since a democrat won a statewide election in Texas. The democrats don’t even have a decent farm team system to build up a valid candidate. That’s why they went for a momentary flash in the pan because there really was no better option. Bush and Perry were very careful not to take the republican dominance for granted and overreach. Instead, they have worked for a limited government approach which in turn has done wonders for the state economy.
If the media wasn’t so biased, they would report what a difference it makes for limited vs intrusive government (e.g Texas vs California). Instead, we reap what we sow and we are in a poor economy that isn’t getting better no matter how much we throttle business with more regulations.

Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator and Democratic nominee for governor, has been doing everything she can to mark the anniversary of that speech last June, even donning the same pink Mizuno sneakers.

…maybe it didn’t go with the men’s BVD shorts she was probably wearing too!

Saw a pencilneck in a Prius with a Wendy Davis sticker on it near my home tonight. Tried to pull alongside so I could get the driver to lower their window so I could tell them that some f*ckwitted imbecile had put a WD sticker on their car as a joke…

One of the major problems that Wendy Davis faced, besides lying about her back story, is that she is a one issue candidate. Her only issue is killing babies and trying to stop abortion clinics from having to meet the same standard as other medical clinics.

When Texas was pushing to keep another Kermit Gosnell from happening, Wendy Davis somehow took offense to that.